SEPL vs. SQZ, ITH, EGY, DEC, TLW, PTAL, PANR, ENQ, GKP, and GENL
Should you be buying Seplat Energy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Seplat Energy include Serica Energy (SQZ), Ithaca Energy (ITH), VAALCO Energy (EGY), Diversified Energy (DEC), Tullow Oil (TLW), PetroTal (PTAL), Pantheon Resources (PANR), EnQuest (ENQ), Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP), and Genel Energy (GENL). These companies are all part of the "oil & gas e&p" industry.
Serica Energy (LON:SQZ) and Seplat Energy (LON:SEPL) are both small-cap energy companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, valuation, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, earnings and risk.
Serica Energy has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Seplat Energy. Serica Energy is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Seplat Energy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
44.9% of Serica Energy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 17.1% of Seplat Energy shares are held by institutional investors. 41.7% of Serica Energy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 35.2% of Seplat Energy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Serica Energy has a beta of 0.43, indicating that its stock price is 57% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Seplat Energy has a beta of 0.48, indicating that its stock price is 52% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Serica Energy has a net margin of 29.58% compared to Serica Energy's net margin of 7.83%. Seplat Energy's return on equity of 42.19% beat Serica Energy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Seplat Energy had 7 more articles in the media than Serica Energy. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Seplat Energy and 0 mentions for Serica Energy. Serica Energy's average media sentiment score of 0.40 beat Seplat Energy's score of 0.00 indicating that Seplat Energy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Serica Energy received 226 more outperform votes than Seplat Energy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.51% of users gave Serica Energy an outperform vote while only 66.36% of users gave Seplat Energy an outperform vote.
Serica Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 23 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.6%. Seplat Energy pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Serica Energy pays out 3,194.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Seplat Energy pays out 8,181.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Serica Energy is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Serica Energy beats Seplat Energy on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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